djbdns: An alternative to BIND

Sat Apr 9 02:29:54 UTC 2005

On Apr 9, 2005 7:47 AM, Niek <niek at asbak.coding-slaves.com> wrote:
> > Oh yes, patch, patch ... welcome to patching hell if you run qmail or
> > any other djb ware :)
> Yeah we tech folk hate patching.

I like it - as long as I dont have to spend all my time on it.

Take qmail for instance - or at least netqmail that adds a set of
patches to make qmail borderline modern and usable (e&oe the
"comparison table" that rates it against sendmail 8.8, exim 2.x etc)

Add a couple more patches for tls, smtp auth etc, then try patching
for (say) mysql or ldap support.

Too many patches, none of which are guaranteed to play well with each
other without some re-patching

If djb would just have done what most other mta authors (especially
Wietse Venema and Philip Hazel) do, and be more open to rolling
contributed patches into qmail, or into other software he's written,
well it'd be more usable

But right now, if you are running anything other than a barebones mta,
or barebones dns, if you want to spend your time doing other things
than being a coding slave .. have fun running djbware

--srs (who needs a barebones dns server and resolver, so installed tinydns)

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)